Lent Calls us to Embrace Foolishness

Lent Calls us to Embrace Foolishness

Walter Brueggemann is a prophet in our time. A connecting thread through his life’s calling as a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Christian testament is the holy task of unmasking domineering powers through millennia of human history. Carrying his woven theme of...
‘Truth and Hope’

‘Truth and Hope’

“Truth and Hope: Essays for A Perilous Age” is a timely new book by Walter Brueggemann. “Truth-telling is grounded in the God who will not be mocked by our illusions,” he writes. “Hope is God-grounded in the conviction that even our wayward resistance does not negate...

An Expansive Dream

A sermon by Michael Cheuk, Pastor, University Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Va. Acts 11:1-18 Have you ever had a really bizarre dream?  I remember when I was in the third or fourth grade and I dreamed that I was on a school field trip, not to a museum or some...

Return to Chaos

A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on September 16, 2012. The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Jeremiah 4:23-28 In an ancient age of wisdom, the preacher of Ecclesiastes wrote, “For everything there is a season, a...